Windsurf openstates mcp server Prompt/openstates_legislator_profile

How to: Windsurf openstates mcp server openstates_legislator_profile

client:Windsurf transport:streamable-http prompt:openstates_legislator_profile

Add openstates mcp server to Windsurf

01
Open ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json and merge this in. Keep any servers already there.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openstates-mcp-server": {
      "serverUrl": "https://openstates.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

02
Save the file and restart Windsurf.
03
openstates_legislator_profile is surfaced in the client's prompt or command menu. Unlike a tool, you invoke it deliberately — Windsurf will not call it for you.
04
If it does not appear, check that openstates mcp server is connected and that you are looking at its prompts rather than its tools.

Global only — Windsurf has no per-project MCP config. Refresh Cascade after saving. Windsurf docs

Set these first

openstates mcp server will not start until these are set, so it never reaches Windsurf.

OPENSTATES_API_KEY
OPENSTATES_DAILY_REQUEST_BUDGET
OPENSTATES_REQUEST_TIMEOUT_MS
OPENSTATES_TOTAL_REQUEST_BUDGET_MS
MCP_LOG_LEVEL

Same prompt, other clients

Read from the server itself, by connecting to it and calling prompts/list on 24 September 2026. A listing does not declare its prompts, so asking is the only way to know them, and this is what the server actually offers rather than what its listing claims. Names only are stored; connect the server for each prompt's arguments.

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